The Great Gilly Hopkins 2015

Overview

The Great Gilly Hopkins is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Herek and adapted by David L. Paterson from Katherine Paterson's 1978 children's book. The film stars Sophie Nélisse, Kathy Bates, Julia Stiles, Bill Cobbs, Billy Magnussen, Octavia Spencer, and Glenn Close. The story follows a young and feisty character who has been passed from foster home to foster home and devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home in order to reunite with her birth mother. The film runs for one hour and thirty-nine minutes, carries a PG rating, and belongs to the comedy, drama, and family genres. It received a United States release date in October. Reviewers noted that the film features themes that are refreshingly complex for a movie targeted to kids, offering enjoyable moments and performances from both older established professionals and young newcomers in the cast.